New P67 System Keeps Crashing

Chaosdarkknight

Chaosdarkknight

Chaosdarkknight

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Hi all,

Im new here so please go easy on me.

I have just finished upgrading my pc...

I have the following...

Asus P8P67 (BIOS 1204)
I5 2500K (Stock at the moment)
G.Skill Ripjaws X DDR3-1600 PC3-12800 (4 X 2GB)
OCZ Vertex 2 50GB SSD (system drive- 7 Ultimate 64bit)
2 X OCZ Vertex 30GB each in RAID 0 (games drive)
WD BLACK/C 640GB (external on a USB 3 cable)

The system is great...however I was wanting to over clock... I am water cooled so cooling aint a problem. But at the moment I can't even change anything in the BIOS with out the PC locking up, crashing or restarting the itself! Some times during boot up it will restart a few times and even freeze. But when it gets into windows it is stable, and hasn't crashed yet.

The most reliable BIOS setup is with everything set as default....any changes I make seem to make the system very unstable.

Any ideas!?

Thanks

Tim
 
Hello and welcome to the forums :)

Have you tried with only 2 memory modules or even a single module, just in case you have a faulty module playing up.
 
chaparral said:
Would help if you told us what your changing in the bios for it to lock up..
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I just changed the Ai overcloking from Auto to Manual is one, and setting my memory to their default timings is another.

As for the memory, im using memtest in windows at the mo...runring four of them, each testing 1590ram and I have no errors yet.

If there is a better way to test tell me please, and i'll try that.

Thanks both
 
Orcvader said:
You're only overclocking with the multipliers right?
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Yeah thats how I'd do it if I could, I cant even change anything without the BIOS freezing. I mean I couldnt even change my boot priority without the bloody thing crashing or locking up.


How long in memtest86+ should I test each ram stick for...im using the standard test atm and on my first stick its done 1 pass with no errors. Will it ever stop testing or is it on like a loop and just keeps going!?
 
When I first got my asus p8p67 and 2600k setup it kept crashing and restarting itself. I read up abit and someone suggested clearing the cmos, on my board (asus p8p67 deluxe its a little switch on the back but on yours I think its a jumper on the board) anyway this solved all the issues I had (I wouldn't have thought it would but it did lol).
Also there is a newer bios I think (1253) and asus said its fixed the issue where it starts and stops itself so try that. Other than that and what other people have suggested I can't think of anything else.
 
redrooster303 said:
When I first got my asus p8p67 and 2600k setup it kept crashing and restarting itself. I read up abit and someone suggested clearing the cmos, on my board (asus p8p67 deluxe its a little switch on the back but on yours I think its a jumper on the board) anyway this solved all the issues I had (I wouldn't have thought it would but it did lol).
Also there is a newer bios I think (1253) and asus said its fixed the issue where it starts and stops itself so try that. Other than that and what other people have suggested I can't think of anything else.
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As for the BIOS I will update. Thanks for heads up. However how do I go about a cmos clear? Do I power down PC, disconnect psu, remove battery, move jumper over for ten seconds and then move it back. Replace battery, and put psu back and start up pc. If its been cleared, will all my settings be put back to default, like my boot priority.

Thanks
 
Chaosdarkknight said:
As for the BIOS I will update. Thanks for heads up. However how do I go about a cmos clear? Do I power down PC, disconnect psu, remove battery, move jumper over for ten seconds and then move it back. Replace battery, and put psu back and start up pc. If its been cleared, will all my settings be put back to default, like my boot priority.

Thanks
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Yes to all of those questions, the battery part is up to you as you don't need to remove it to clear cmos, after you have done that I would then update to the latest bios, as mentioned by others the Asus boards have been very buggy(well done Asus on your great testing prior to release):rolleyes: Although some are still having problems it has cleared a lot up for many folk.
 
So far I have tested all my memory, one stick at a time for at least 2 hours each, no errors.

I have cleared cmos, updated BIOS etc, but it still locks up.

I have managed to change a few things like core voltge, but it does seem as soon as I turn on manual overclocking the problems start.

When it manages to stop up log enough for me to save and exit the BIOS, when I boot to windows it BSOD on my, its so fast though, I dont even see an error code.

Help, this is doing my head in!
 
Have you tried running with only one memory module, as I am thinking regards my setup, I had a 2 sets of faulty OCZ ram, the second set would pass mem test fine. But the system would fail Prime and Intel Burn Test.
 
RJC said:
Have you tried running with only one memory module, as I am thinking regards my setup, I had a 2 sets of faulty OCZ ram, the second set would pass mem test fine. But the system would fail Prime and Intel Burn Test.
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So do you think, I should put my first pair in, prime95. And then do the same with the second pair?

I thought memtest86+ is supposed to actually pick up on memory issues/errors?

However if it does fail prime, wont it just mean it could be something else and not just the memory, or is what your getting at, if it passes with one pair and not the other pair, then the pair it faild on is faulty?
 
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Chaosdarkknight said:
So do you think, I should put my first pair in, prime95. And then do the same with the second pair?
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Try that, see how you get on, if you still have problems try single memory modules.

Chaosdarkknight said:
I thought memtest86+ is supposed to actually pick up on memory issues/errors?

However if it does fail prime, wont it just mean it could be something else and not just the memory, or is what your getting at, if it passes with one pair and not the other pair, then the pair it faild on is faulty?
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I thought that as well with mem test, I spoke to Ocuk who mentioned that the memory controller on the CPU could have been faulty, sent the cpu and mobo back and these were tested fine. (spec in sig)

I bought some Patriot memory, the whole lot arrived, tested with the Patriot memory without any problems, tried the OCZ memory, got the errors and BSOD on stability testing. Sent the OCZ back for a refund.
 
I re-flashed bios to 1204, then straight after that. I reset cmos! Re-booted system went into BIOS, it seem stable was in there for about ten minutes with no lock ups. (Only have one RAM module in system).

I changed the voltage to 1.5V like on its sticker, and also manual input the timmings too...still no lock ups. Re-configured my boot prioity and turned off CPU fan and still no lock ups, longest its even been lock up fee whilst in BIOS. So I saved and exit...boot into windows fine no double reboots, no BSOD.

I am now in windows running one RAM module through its paces on Prime95...

I will do this now for say two hours each RAM module and and see the out come.
 
Chaosdarkknight said:
I re-flashed bios to 1204, then straight after that. I reset cmos! Re-booted system went into BIOS, it seem stable was in there for about ten minutes with no lock ups. (Only have one RAM module in system).

I changed the voltage to 1.5V like on its sticker, and also manual input the timmings too...still no lock ups. Re-configured my boot prioity and turned off CPU fan and still no lock ups, longest its even been lock up fee whilst in BIOS. So I saved and exit...boot into windows fine no double reboots, no BSOD.

I am now in windows running one RAM module through its paces on Prime95...

I will do this now for say two hours each RAM module and and see the out come.
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I have ran Prime95 on each RAM stick with no errors. I am going to play around with doing them in pairs and see if they have any errors, maybe they will conflict with eachother...I doubt it though.
 
Chaosdarkknight said:
I have ran Prime95 on each RAM stick with no errors. I am going to play around with doing them in pairs and see if they have any errors, maybe they will conflict with eachother...I doubt it though.
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As of this post above I am haing problems again...

I have run some more tests,

I have individually tested each memory module with memtest86+, no errors. I have then booted into windows with still the same memory module and ran Prime95 for an hour no errors, then I used IntelBurn Test, no errors. I done this with each module individually, and then in their pairs, no errors.

With any one of my four memory modules I could boot up normally, with no double boots, and I could stay in the BIOS with no lock ups or crashes. This was also the case with my modules in pairs.

However as soon as I place all four modules in the system together, all the problems came back, on my first reboot after installing the four modules, it double booted, when I got into the BIOS it locked up, (looked corrupted type thing too). I thought this strange, my modules are fine so maybe its the dimm slots, so I went back to using my modules in pairs...this resolved the double boots etc, but moving the pairs from either dimms 1 & 3 to dimms 2 & 4 brought up no problems.

I am almost 100% convinced this BIOS (1204), or board in general can't handle more than two modules at a time.

Any Ideas?!
 
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